Wednesday, September 02, 2009

I spit out my food while reading this

Sports Illustrated's Peter King has released his predictions for the upcoming season.

I'll let you digest it in regards to who he sees coming out of the NFC and playing in the Super Bowl. I'm speechless.
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5 comments:

Bismuth said...

3 NFC North teams make it to week 2 of the playoffs, huh?

September 2, 2009 5:06 PM
Travis D. said...

The only thing more bogus than the Bears making the Super Bowl is the Texans winning the AFC South. I'll be amazed if the Texans have half as many wins as King is predicting.

Other than those predictions, King really didn't manage to go out on a limb with anything. Of course, nothing goes as planned in an NFL season.

The Bears don't have it anymore, but it sure is fun for a lot of people to jump on the Cutler bandwagon (even though I kind of wish that we had him).

September 2, 2009 5:20 PM
DC said...

I don't buy the Bears being that good either. On the other hand, my perception was their defence really slipped last year. But I just looked up Football Outsiders (I know, not gospel, but still) and it had them ranked as the seventh best D in the league last year while the Vikes D was ranked #4 overall. So maybe the defence wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was.

On offence, the site has the Bears with the 23rd ranked defence and the Vikes 25th. And they finished 9-7 – without Cutler. Maybe they can go 11-5 and make it to the Super Bowl now.

September 2, 2009 8:13 PM
Peter said...

If the Bears and Patriots meet in the Super Bowl, it'll be as ugly as it was when they lost to the Colts.

When was the last conference championship game between division rivals, I wonder?

September 3, 2009 5:58 AM
DC said...

Peter:

I think the last time would have been in 1986-87 when the Giants beat Washington 17-0. It doesn't happen very often.

September 3, 2009 12:10 PM

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